The Gospel and the Church
When I came to Church of the Saviour one of my first priorities was to preach a series called “The Gospel-Driven Church.” It is my prayer that the message of the doing, dying, and rising of Christ becomes the controling…
Month August 2009
Bruce Gordon’s Calvin
In this five-hundredth anniversary of Calvin’s birth, booksellers have flooded the marketplace with all things John Calvin. Of all the books published in this anniversary year, the one that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest is Bruce Gordon’s Calvin. In fact, it is…
Blog 168: 4.1.9 – 4.1.14
“Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to Christ’s institution, there, it is not to be doubted, a church of God exists” (4.1.9). Thus Calvin identifies the two (not three) marks…
More on McLaren and Ramadan
From Denny Burk: Commenting on McLaren’s post… This explanation is so filled with dangerous and damning error, it’s difficult to know where to begin. For starters, one cannot observe Ramadan as a “deeply committed” Christian. Fasting in the Christian tradition…
Blog 167: 4.1.5 – 4.1.8
The Reformers affirmed the necessary distinction between the church visible and invisible; that is, between the one church of Christ on earth as man sees it, and the one church in heaven and earth as God sees it. The one…
Comparing BibleWorks, Logos, and Accordance
Keith Mathison of Ligonier offers a helpful comparative review of these Bible software programs.
Packing Unforgiveness
I’ve been thinking recently about something television star Kelsey Grammer said. It’s not because I saw a rerun of Cheers. Unfortunately, the context is tragic. Grammer has me thinking about well intentioned people who end up “packing unforgiveness.” Where deep…
God’s Sovereignty and Human Freedom
In a recent post we have been having a discusion on the nature of God’s sovereignty. Over at Ref21 Andy Naselli has written a good post dealing with the intersection of God’s sovereignty and human freedom. 1. The Bible never…
Do We Have Free Will?
Non-Christians and Christians alike often give the same answer to difficult questions like these: Why did God allow sin in the first place? Why does God save some people and not others? Why does God send people to hell? Why…
Do We Have Free Will?
Non-Christians and Christians alike often give the same answer to difficult questions like these: Why did God allow sin in the first place? Why does God save some people and not others? Why does God send people to hell? Why…